Let Me Sum Up

A fortnightly podcast that sums up all those reports on climate and energy you don't have time to read. Because there is too much.

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Recent Episodes

Nov. 23, 2025

No Sweets? Stuff This COP30 Summary Down Your Throats, Greedy Children

Direct from the kitchen table at our AirBnB in Belém, we sum up all the wild scenes from the dramatic final week of COP30 in Brazil.
Nov. 19, 2025

"What The COP?" LIVE from the Australia Pavilion at COP30 in Brazil!

With the COP31 bid in the balance and the decision text in the ether your intrepid hosts try to work out what the hell is going on on a tumultuous day at COP30 in Brazil. Featuring special guest COP Maven Alex Scott!
Nov. 16, 2025

K-COP: NDC Hunters

Your intrepid hosts sum up the first week of COP30 in Belém, Brazil. Featuring special guest COP-knower, Carbon Brief's Josh Gabbatiss!

About the Hosts

Luke Menzel

Luke leans into his obsessions; as CEO of the Energy Efficiency Council and host of the First Fuel podcast he gets to bang on about the role of efficiency, electrification and flex in Australia's energy transition. And as co-host of LMSU, he spends his spare time continuing to talk about all that, plus everything else that's going on in climate and energy.

At the time of writing Luke's attempts to get Frankie and Tennant to start one or more LMSU spinoff podcasts focused on movies, TV shows, board games, video games and/or Lego have been unsuccessful.

Frankie Muskovic

Frankie is a longtime climate policy wonk who recently took on the role of leading the national policy agenda for the Investor Group on Climate Change. 

After 10 years at the Property Council of Australia, Frankie is also deeply invested in home efficiency and electrification and there’s really no stopping her from talking about it; indeed she said yes to doing a podcast with Luke and Tennant to spare her family yet more climate chat at the dinner table.

Always ambitious, Frankie has seized the mantle of LMSU Global Vice President for Marketing and Extortion and is executing a grandiose plan for world domination, one T-shirt at a time.

Tennant Reed

By day, Tennant is climate and energy guy for the Australian Industry Group. By night, he is a podcast co-host, a role-playing game moderator and an enthusiastic cook.

At all times, a tireless carbon border adjustment enthusiast and dodgy spreadsheet wrangler!